June 04, 2009
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Air & Climate Newsletter June 04, 2009 |
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Global warming causes 300,000 deaths yearly
Climate change is already responsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300m people, according to the first comprehensive study of the human impact of global warming. It projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms and forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest humanitarian challenge the world faces. Economic losses due to climate change today amount to more than $125bn a year - more than the all present world aid. The report comes from former UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s thinktank, the Global Humanitarian ... |
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Large mercury control market just around the corner
The U.S., which was behind Europe in reducing SO2 from power plants, took the lead in mercury reduction with its Clean Air Mercury Rule. This rule would have guaranteed a large near-term market for mercury control technologies and chemicals. Since this rule promulgation, there have been two developments which promise to make the market even bigger. But, ironically, they have also caused uncertainty and inertia in the short-term. This is the situation described by the McIlvaine Company in its continually updated, Mercury Air Reduction Markets. The two developments which will make the market ... |
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